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30
Sep

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

Greetings! Nailed it: I love the first sentence in Thomas Friedman’s wonderful NY Times column today: "President Trump is such an awful human being that just writing about him feels degrading.” I wonder if Trump barnacle Natalie “the human printer” Harp will give the portly POTUS a hard copy of the article to gag on during his morning Big Mac...No Land to Stand on, the new nonfiction book by Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia graduate student and Palestinian activist, received a NY Times rave review this weekend. Not so fast, says the right-leaning, pro-Israeli Free Press.  Writer Eli Lake called him a scoundrel and “secular saint for progressives.” Worth noting: Andrea Peyser, a conservative columnist for the NY Post, piled on by describing Khalil as a “grifter,” and advises his admirers that he shouldn’t be compared to the likes of Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King...Learn something new every day: There’s a newly revised Christian dating app called Upward.  One of its features is something called “chivalry mode,” according to The Blaze.  I have no idea what it is but it sounds like a cool bipartisan feature...Another controversy erupts at Cornell: After university senior Jared Lederman published an essay on Medium stating that men and women were not created equal, he was ostracized at the Ivy League school. He even got the boot from his social fraternity ZBT. Here’s the essay he wrote for the Wall Street Journal about his rocky experiences expressing a contrarian opinion...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard


Today's Headlines From the Right

The Strait of Hormuz Is Open

source: The Free Press

Oil is once again moving through the strait. Can the Trump administration turn a winning Iran strategy into lasting victory?

Encouraging Signs from the Strait of Hormuz

source: National Review

By some estimates, the amount of oil getting through the strait is about 80 percent of the prewar level.

Trump Is Proving That Iran Can’t Control the World’s Energy Supply

source: NY Post

Oil shipments from the Gulf are now approaching prewar levels, ending the energy blackmail — even as Tehran’s resources dwindle, pushing the regime ever closer to having to abandon its nuclear ambitions

What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Gas Prices

source: Daily Signal

Average gas prices during Trump 2.0 have been about 9 cents per gallon less than during the Biden administration.

Gas Prices Are High

source: Newsmax

So is the price of liberty.

Why a Hegseth Impeachment Terrifies the GOP

source: The American Conservative

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have openly said he is guilty of war crimes; one liberal outlet published a piece last year that began with a simple assertion—“Pete Hegseth is a murderer.” And Dems are unlikely to be content with bagging Hegseth; others further down in the Pentagon bureaucracy could be in legal jeopardy as well.

Another Attempt to Impeach Trump Has Begun

source: FrontPage

There are more charges than ever, but once again, it’s really for daring to stand against the Left.

Are the GOP Doomers Overreacting?

source: Townhall

Maybe Democrats, while leading, aren't quite as far ahead as they think.

Some Squishy Republicans Are Breaking with Trump as Midterms Near

source: SteveGruber.com

For Republicans suddenly getting cold feet on enforcing immigration policies, the choice to talk like Democrats is theirs. But Republican voters may decide they’re sick and tired of a GOP that decides to buckle every time the political heat gets turned up.

Trans-Obsessed NH Dem Senate Candidate Chris Pappas Plans to Radically Transform the U.S. Senate

source: Loomered

One of the most disturbing aspects centered around Chris Pappas’s support for the radical transgender movement includes the fact that he has openly embraced trans rioters on his official House of Representatives website. This is an alarming fact, considering the irrefutable link between transgender ideology and left-wing violence.

Ellen “Elliot” Page Goes Topless for Cover of New York Magazine’s Style Issue

source: Victory Girls

By Carol Marks: I had a reaction when I saw the photos. Not outrage. Not pearl-clutching. Something much more basic and instinctual. Looking at them made me physically sick. (Image included)

Texas Dem James Talarico Caught in Lie on Trans Insanity

source: The Federalist

Unearthed footage exclusively obtained by The Federalist rips off the mask of Talarico’s phony ‘moderating’ position on trans issues.

Dem Senator Wears a Hijab with Hamas-Praising Iman

source: Washington Free Beacon

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wore a hijab during a visit last week to a Bronx mosque where the powerful New York Democrat sat alongside a cleric who once celebrated Hamas for "causing so much trouble for the Jews" and has hailed Osama bin Laden's spiritual mentor.

Jack Smith Collected Banking Information on Thousands of Trump Supporters

source: Daily Caller

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s sweeping investigation into President Donald Trump included the financial data of everyday supporters across 50 states who gave as little as $1 to the president and allied groups, new documents reveal.

Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Husband Needs a Wellness Check

source: Washington Free Beacon

Recent interview comparing wife to MLK likened to hostage video recorded under duress.

Socialism Is Back in Style and Dems Are Buying the Pitch

source: Fox News

By Jonathan Turley: The Democratic Socialists of America promise a world without landlords or debt as Democrats increasingly embrace collectivism

Woke 2 Still Looks Pretty Crazy

source: Wall Street Journal

Many progressives are still obsessed by victimhood and group identity, which is a big part of what produced Woke 1. AOC might now prefer to laugh off those ideas. Abolish police? Get rid of Thanksgiving? Ha ha, what a crazy time that was. Yet read today’s news, and it’s easy to wonder whether the fever on the left has even begun to break.